Entries are now open for WEE 6 in Antrim Castle Gardens! https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?elid=Y&event_id=13766 Further info can be found here: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/wee-6-antrim-gardens
Entries close tomorrow (Tuesday 11 June) at 19:00Enter online to make sure you don’t miss out. https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?elid=Y&event_id=13765 Entry on the day is possible, but subject to map availability!
It’s been quite a while, but it’s time… It’s time for some Mental Stimulation.I’m going to reach in, grab hold of the contents ( if present ), give it a shake and then pop the lid back on. Yes; It’s time for some Urban Orienteering! OCO Cordially invite you all to an afternoon of mental massage around the paths and green spaces of Craigavon South. This Event will be the second leg of this year’s NI Urban League and consequently I wouldn’t want to disappoint any of you Urban fans. For your delight we will be using a newly extended Read More …
Registration for Saturday’s Club Meet closes TOMORROW NIGHT (Tuesday 4 June) at midnight, so sign-up HERE for coaching and a chance to catch-up with club mates – free for all NIOA and OI members. TD5 group will be looking at low visibility navigation in the green.TD3/4 will have a chance to look at contours in forests or distance judgement and pacing. ❗A perfect chance to put those Drumkeeragh Forest mistakes to rest after the 2023 British Middle Championships and 2024 NI Colour Series. Full details can be found here: https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/club-meet-jun-2024-drumkerragh/
👏Thank you everyone who competed in the NI championship races, I hope you had a great day running these very different, challenging, yet still, some how, very enjoyable courses! Again, a huge thank you to everyone involved in putting the double header together, it was great to see so many willing and happy volunteers pulling together to make a wonderful event – there was great praise from all the competitors, especially those who travelled up from the south and from across the water. Special thank you to organisers – Ric Gamble and Cecil Armstrong; Planners – Richard Vasey and Wilbert Read More …
🎉Congratulations to our May WEE Series winners! With the best three out of the four runs in May being counted and with prizes for the top three male and female athletes and for Juniors too, here are the overall podium results: In the Short Course, the top females were: 1️⃣Jennifer Dawson (Max 300 points), 2️⃣Oonagh Reeve (296) and 3️⃣Abbie Green (288). The short race males were as follows: 1️⃣Luke Wilkins (287 points), 2️⃣Finn Dawson (268) and 3️⃣Elliot Crawford (187). Elliot only completed two courses, so one to look out for in June! And in the long race, the top three women Read More …
On Saturday, in addition to the 2 NIChamps events, there will be the first instalment of the 2024 LVO TrailO Champs. It will take the form of a TempO cluster, in which the competitor, from a static position, has to decide (against the clock) which of the visible kites (or perhaps none of them) matches the given control site info (circle & description). There will be 5 kites on view and 6 decisions to be made. The venue will be in Slemish College, in the quadrangle to the side of the main building. There will be direction signs from the Read More …
Entries close tomorrow 19:00 Enter online to make sure you don’t miss out and avail of member rates. https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?event_id=13623 Entry on the day is possible, but subject to map availability!
It’s welcome to new members Jamie Allsop and Sophia Wang, who dipped their toes in the O-water at Lady Dixon. Unfortunately Sophia failed to finish, but Jamie’s result has been put into the hCALF calculations. As this was his first event his time is used to calculate his handicap going forward so the points are not affected in either of the hCOW or Regatta tables but the Handicap table shows Jamie what he’ll be working to improve.
On the website home page, go to “STANDINGS” and click on “hCALF 2024”. Of the handicap holders there are 28 getting points, only 18 missing out and 14 first-timers getting their handicap – WEE is getting popular! Both hCOW and Regatta tables are place-point based so the lower your score, the better (but with 7 events in the series you’ll need 4 to count). Think of Regatta (improvement) as your reward for climbing the handicap mountain and hCOW (regularity) for not falling off the plateau.